RL things I love
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 @Ominous I actually knocked on wood. But yay! You can do it! 
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 @Ominous said in RL things I love: Made it to California with all the stuff I didn't throw away crammed into my car. Started my job and I think I can do it. Got a 6-month lease and am moving in. Cross your fingers and knock on wood, but things seem to be working out. Let us know how it goes, yeah? Also, avoid fires. 
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 I am so happy to hear it!!! 
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 Thank you for the well wishes, everyone. I am in Santa Barbara working for the County of Santa Barbara in code enforcement. If you're ever in town, say "hi." @Ganymede said in RL things I love: Let us know how it goes, yeah? Also, avoid fires. I am on the coast, and no fires here so far. The fires have a couple of mountains ranges to get over first, which is possible but helps a bit. 
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 I began brewing my own kombucha again after about 7 years. I've been wanting to for a while, so I'm thrilled. Even moreso that it's been very very successful so far. And it seems to be really helping my stomach out. I bought a few plants a few weeks ago. I am terrible with plants, but I keep trying (stubbornly). One of them is struggling, another is doing OK, but the peace lily is thriving and this makes me so happy. Last week I was under the weather and my knee was acting up real bad. These combined with the general blahs killed my RP ability. I just haven't been able to get up and go when it comes to RP. I barely even wanna login anywhere. Channel chatter is fucking exhausting, but if I turn off all channels: I just sit in silence. I feel like having channels off means no one will even know I exist, so it becomes 'why even be logged in?' But I haven't been like, moping over it. FFXIV has actually been really great for me lately. It's been relaxing and engaging and I've been playing with a few long-time buddies so I'm still being social and not just becoming a lump. 
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 This is an RL Thing I Love because it was a meme shared on a Discord server I'm on and it's so adorably wholesome that I keep looking back to it and smiling and it is going in the 'things that make me smile' collection:  
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 I got my eldest moved in to his college apt/dorm today and didn't cry until after I was back on the road home! 
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 I got my official membership card and certificate today and omg, they are more beautiful in person than I dared imagine   
  
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 @Wizz That card is actually quite lovely. I'm totally in line with the social progress and other tenets, but I didn't know there was an actual MEMBERSHIP CARD. Shit. Now I totally want to be a card carrying member. 
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 Membership itself is free!! But yeah, getting the card is basically just an excuse to put money towards their activism efforts. FeelsGood.gif 
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 i am so glad that the people i consider celebrities are so relatively obscure and accessible and i can do things like take online dance classes with them. i needed those endorphins today. 
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 When I get 6 hours to cook. German red cabbage sauerkraut. Sausage soup w/ mirepoix base. Arborio risotto cooked with leftover broth from the soup. And later, gluten-free apple muffins. Yes, my family probably doesn't deserve this, but I like to feed people. 
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 The last time I had Indian food I got violently ill after - and it wasn't the food because my husband ate most of my plate when it was too spicy for me. So it has been a few years. But I woke up ready to try again and we did. So far so good and thus I'm feeling hopeful! (The food was amazing tasing both times.) 
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 @Macha said in RL things I love: @Wizz That card is actually quite lovely. I'm totally in line with the social progress and other tenets, but I didn't know there was an actual MEMBERSHIP CARD. Shit. Now I totally want to be a card carrying member. Saaaaaame. 
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 @Ganymede said in RL things I love: When I get 6 hours to cook. German red cabbage sauerkraut. Sausage soup w/ mirepoix base. Arborio risotto cooked with leftover broth from the soup. And later, gluten-free apple muffins. Yes, my family probably doesn't deserve this, but I like to feed people. They don't! But I do! Feed me! 
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 I have the absolute best Dog. I am so damn lucky he chose me. Snuggles for hours on a lazy Sunday. 
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 So, just discovered the other day that this was a thing. Orson Welles & H.G. Wells share a radio interview 2 years after the 'War of the Worlds' broadcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XhwiliJxc4&ab_channel=OrsonWelles-Topic 
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 Just got an offer on a new job, giving my 2 weeks notice tomorrow. I will miss my little boss and my other coworkers, and will have to work a little longer but will still get benefits, but no more being ruled by cross sales and survey nps score hell. 
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 I am so relieved. Congrats!! 
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 @mietze Omg job searching is SUCH hell, I am SO glad you found something!! 
 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
		 
			
			